Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 74 52
Rank change year-on-year -38 -22 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,271 1,837 3,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.89% 3.70% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 4.01% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 853 1,052 2,727
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -14.01%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £121,000 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53,424 45,785 66,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.46% 92.29% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 31,947 22,286 51,175
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 1,166 £77,500 +3.77% 506
London +8 655 £87,500 +2.94% 188
Work from Home -20 565 £75,000 +4.18% 324
UK excluding London -98 520 £70,000 +3.70% 365
North of England -40 235 £70,000 +2.94% 110
North West -26 118 £67,500 - 66
Yorkshire -37 94 £75,000 +4.18% 26
South East -118 93 £75,000 +11.11% 123
South West -71 62 £66,250 -3.32% 49
Midlands -40 60 £68,000 +4.62% 42
East of England -2 35 £67,500 +17.39% 15
West Midlands -5 35 £70,000 - 30
Scotland -84 26 £60,000 -19.93% 22
North East -7 23 £68,750 +30.95% 18
East Midlands -44 23 £67,750 +4.23% 12
Wales -6 8 £54,185 +22.19% 9
Northern Ireland -27 5 £62,500 +16.28% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
1 27 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (1.89%) Apache
4 21 (1.65%) Confluence
5 13 (1.02%) JBoss
5 13 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 11 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.79%) CMS
8 7 (0.55%) Appian
8 7 (0.55%) IIS
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.24%) Liferay
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.079%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.079%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.079%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 18 (1.42%) Maya
2 16 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 16 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.71%) Endur
3 7 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.55%) SAP FS
4 6 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.079%) Actimize
6 1 (0.079%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.079%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.079%) Quorum
6 1 (0.079%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.079%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 706 (55.55%) AWS
2 589 (46.34%) Azure
3 256 (20.14%) GCP
4 227 (17.86%) Serverless
5 175 (13.77%) SaaS
6 124 (9.76%) GitHub
7 112 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
9 94 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (7.32%) Amazon S3
11 64 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
11 64 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 62 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
13 57 (4.48%) PaaS
14 54 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (2.99%) IaaS
16 38 (2.99%) OpenShift
17 37 (2.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.57%) Broadband
2 13 (1.02%) HTTP
3 9 (0.71%) AMQP
4 6 (0.47%) Internet
5 5 (0.39%) Network Security
6 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.31%) SNMP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.24%) MQTT
7 3 (0.24%) Multicast
8 2 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.16%) DHCP
8 2 (0.16%) DNS
8 2 (0.16%) Firewall
8 2 (0.16%) LTE
8 2 (0.16%) SSL
9 1 (0.079%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.079%) TCAP
9 1 (0.079%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (13.93%) NoSQL
2 164 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 138 (10.86%) MongoDB
4 122 (9.60%) SQL Server
5 65 (5.11%) DynamoDB
6 61 (4.80%) Relational Database
7 59 (4.64%) MySQL
8 48 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 34 (2.68%) Redis
11 29 (2.28%) Big Data
12 22 (1.73%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.73%) Power BI
12 22 (1.73%) RDBMS
13 21 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
15 17 (1.34%) Tableau
16 14 (1.10%) DB2
17 12 (0.94%) Pinecone
18 10 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 161 (12.67%) Git
2 116 (9.13%) Jenkins
3 65 (5.11%) GitLab
4 54 (4.25%) JIRA
5 50 (3.93%) TeamCity
6 39 (3.07%) JUnit
7 38 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 36 (2.83%) Selenium
9 25 (1.97%) Cypress.io
10 23 (1.81%) Bitbucket
11 22 (1.73%) Mockito
12 20 (1.57%) CircleCI
13 19 (1.49%) JMeter
13 19 (1.49%) Maven
14 16 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.87%) Postman
16 10 (0.79%) Vite
17 9 (0.71%) REST Assured
18 8 (0.63%) git-flow
18 8 (0.63%) LoadRunner
General
1 382 (30.06%) Finance
2 372 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 148 (11.64%) Banking
4 117 (9.21%) Law
5 106 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 69 (5.43%) Retail
8 60 (4.72%) Financial Institution
9 54 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 44 (3.46%) Back Office
10 44 (3.46%) Telecoms
11 40 (3.15%) Games
12 26 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.81%) Billing
13 23 (1.81%) French Language
13 23 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.73%) Dutch Language
15 19 (1.49%) Legal
16 16 (1.26%) Advertising
17 12 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 421 (33.12%) Developer
2 320 (25.18%) Senior
3 250 (19.67%) Software Engineer
4 228 (17.94%) Architect
5 166 (13.06%) Lead
6 114 (8.97%) Senior Developer
7 111 (8.73%) Solutions Architect
8 104 (8.18%) Java Developer
9 103 (8.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 89 (7.00%) Java Engineer
11 87 (6.85%) .NET Developer
12 85 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 53 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
14 51 (4.01%) Lead Developer
15 49 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 48 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
17 44 (3.46%) Software Developer
18 43 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
19 41 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 37 (2.91%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (23.92%) React
2 297 (23.37%) .NET
3 256 (20.14%) RESTful
4 227 (17.86%) Spring
5 209 (16.44%) REST
6 200 (15.74%) Spring Boot
7 187 (14.71%) Kafka
8 181 (14.24%) Node.js
9 129 (10.15%) AngularJS
10 105 (8.26%) .NET Core
11 80 (6.29%) HTML
12 71 (5.59%) .NET Framework
13 63 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
14 62 (4.88%) ASP.NET
15 61 (4.80%) CSS
16 60 (4.72%) gRPC
16 60 (4.72%) Middleware
17 54 (4.25%) ASP.NET Web API
18 48 (3.78%) Hibernate
19 46 (3.62%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 354 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 204 (16.05%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (10.39%) Enterprise Software
4 107 (8.42%) Product Ownership
5 52 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 35 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.28%) Virtual Team
11 27 (2.12%) Blockchain
12 26 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.97%) AI Agents
14 20 (1.57%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 18 (1.42%) Over-the-Top Content
15 18 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
16 15 (1.18%) Management Information System
17 14 (1.10%) IoT
17 14 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.25%) Linux
2 19 (1.49%) Android
2 19 (1.49%) Windows
3 10 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.39%) CentOS
4 5 (0.39%) Debian
4 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.079%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 580 (45.63%) Agile
3 510 (40.13%) DevOps
4 467 (36.74%) Software Engineering
5 332 (26.12%) Containerisation
6 301 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (22.50%) Mentoring
8 275 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
9 248 (19.51%) AI
10 237 (18.65%) Event-Driven
11 224 (17.62%) Test Automation
12 223 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 200 (15.74%) Computer Science
14 159 (12.51%) Scrum
15 156 (12.27%) TDD
16 152 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 151 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
18 147 (11.57%) Architectural Patterns
18 147 (11.57%) Roadmaps
19 138 (10.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 456 (35.88%) Java
2 303 (23.84%) Python
3 281 (22.11%) SQL
4 271 (21.32%) C#
5 258 (20.30%) JavaScript
6 225 (17.70%) TypeScript
7 85 (6.69%) Go
8 30 (2.36%) PHP
9 28 (2.20%) PL/SQL
10 27 (2.12%) Shell Script
11 26 (2.05%) Bash
11 26 (2.05%) C++
12 25 (1.97%) C
12 25 (1.97%) Scala
13 20 (1.57%) Ruby
14 17 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.10%) Rust
16 13 (1.02%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.79%) Bicep
18 6 (0.47%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 213 (16.76%) Degree
2 140 (11.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.42%) Security Cleared
4 77 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 72 (5.66%) AWS Certification
6 52 (4.09%) Master's Degree
7 47 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 45 (3.54%) Azure Certification
9 39 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 32 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (1.02%) CISSP
11 13 (1.02%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.87%) CISM
13 9 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.71%) PMP
14 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.14%) QA
2 29 (2.28%) PCI DSS
3 28 (2.20%) GDPR
4 23 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.94%) NCSC
6 12 (0.94%) NIST
7 10 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.71%) IFRS
9 8 (0.63%) EMIR
9 8 (0.63%) SLA
10 7 (0.55%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.55%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.47%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.47%) GRC
12 5 (0.39%) SEPA
13 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.24%) WCAG
15 2 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 381 (29.98%) Docker
2 15 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.079%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 391 (30.76%) Kubernetes
2 226 (17.78%) Terraform
3 75 (5.90%) Grafana
4 53 (4.17%) Ansible
5 27 (2.12%) Kibana
6 26 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.10%) Argo
9 8 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 8 (0.63%) Puppet
10 4 (0.31%) Cilium
10 4 (0.31%) Istio
10 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.24%) Rancher
12 2 (0.16%) Nagios
12 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 164 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.80%) Oracle
3 42 (3.30%) Google
4 19 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 18 (1.42%) Guidewire
5 18 (1.42%) SAP
5 18 (1.42%) Typelevel
6 17 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (1.26%) Splunk
8 15 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
8 15 (1.18%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.10%) Software AG
10 13 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 12 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 12 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.79%) Duck Creek
12 10 (0.79%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.79%) IBM